Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,717 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
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Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. (1919-2004)
Map of Russia, 1947
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Richard Williams (?-?)
Frank Mann with a Waco Biplane
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Frank Calvin Mann (1908-1992)

Explore Global African History

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Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) (1920-2000)
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University of the West Indies (1948- )
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Thomas Peters (1738-1792)
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Kofi Yamgnane (1945- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

U.S. Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot
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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860
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Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949
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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: One Tennessee Community’s Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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